Filmmaker John Greyson, who presented his film Zero Patience (1993) in last year’s salute to New Queer Cinema, and who has recently been detained in Egypt while traveling for a film project, is widely noted not only as a chronicler of international queer imagination and politics, but also a committed participant in global LGBT and human rights causes worldwide. This program celebrates the sweep of Greyson’s artistic vision and commitments, featuring a screening of two individual works and a panel discussion designed to shed light on Greyson’s contributions to film art, queer communities and public life.

Outfest members receive two for one admission at the Billy Wilder Theater box office!

Proteus (Canada/South Africa, 2003)

Directed by John Greyson

With flourishes of design, costuming, metaphor and music, filmmaker John Greyson dramatizes an 18th-century anecdote of two men, black and white, imprisoned on South Africa’s infamous Robben Island (where Nelson Mandela was later incarcerated). Their discovered affair exposes the two to severe persecution as part of a politically motivated witch-hunt.